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KY-Sen (R): Paul 51%, Greyson 42%
Rand Paul is Ron Paul’s son, whereas Trey Greyson is the establishment (ie Mitch McConnell) pick for Bunning’s open seat. It’s pretty hard to imagine either being worse than Bunning, who is one of the all time worst senators along with Inhofe.

KY-Sen (D): Mongiardo 48%, Conway 39%.
Mongiardo is the more conservative of the two, but not necessarily more electable. The last poll I saw had Paul beating Conway by only 3, and Mongiardo by 5. Mongiardo’s been leading in the polls, but Conway’s been gaining of late. Mongiardo is expected to lead the rural early counties, so wait-and-see is the operative word.

Conway 49%, Mongiardo 38% 1045/3575 reporting
Louisville breaking heavily for Conway, but many rural counties remain that will likely go to Mongiardo. The key area to watch is Kenton county. Mongiardo needs to win there if he’s going to come out ahead.
Paul 59%, Greyson 36% – and the AP calls it for Paul!

Winners so far:
Sestak (called by AP)
Conway
Paul
Interesting fact in KY primary. Mongiardo got more votes than Rand Paul, Democratic turnout was quite high. Will we hear about this tomorrow? Somehow I doubt it.
Critz is killing Burns in PA-12 (has it been called yet?)
Lincoln leads Halter so far, but is below critical 50% mark.

Progressives need to get behind Halter and Sestak NOW or else those wins will be wasted. Send them some money.

Especially send Halter some money TODAY; he has a runoff coming up soon.

Media is working hard to force the results into the “anti-incumbency, anti-DC” template. AP story, the results

…provided further evidence that voters are in the mood to choose outsiders over insiders.

An exception was the race to fill a vacant House seat in a conservative-leaning Pennsylvania congressional district; voters elected the late Democratic Rep. John Murtha’s one-time aide, Mark Critz, over Republican businessman Tim Burns.

An exception? Two non-incumbents running for an open seat? Note the careful segue (“outsiders vs. insiders”) to avoid noting that the voters simply preferred the Democrat in an open race.

Let us all join hands and rejoice in the defeat of Specter! And lets play close attention to Rand Paul, he’s already said some stuff that must make Mitch “The Kentucky Raisin” McConnell uncomfortable to say the least.

Umm, just noticing that Rand Paul got fewer total votes than either of the Democratic candidates in the KY primary. I don’t know what that means but comes November perhaps we’ll see if this actually gets the D’s out to vote.

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